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Updates!

So, it was brought to my attention that I havn't actually updated this in a while, so here you go, an update! (However dissapointing you might find it!)

Ok, so the most important update of recent is that I finally (after 4 years of being out of date) upgraded the OS on my server from Redhat 9 (EOL April 2004!) to the ubuntu server 8.04 ("Hardy Heron").

This also as a result of to a change in iptables between the ancient 2.4.30 Kernel and the current 2.6.24 prompted me to rewrite my IPTables firewall scripts (As the old one broke stuff, like my multiple IPs - which in turn managed to break logging into Authgate in a fun way!).
For anyone who is interested, they can be downloaded here.
Once downloaded, extract them to a directory (I use /root and thus they are currently configured as such) and edit the "nat" file to change the main settings.
You can then run it by using:

/bin/bash /root/nat

(Change to suit where you extracted to)

I have also included shape.php, which allows you to setup traffic shaping for People >:E
It needs configuring separately to the main script, and is called by nat-shape.sh (which is called by the main script).
Once you have configured shape.php you will need to edit nat-shape.sh to make it actually call it (remove the first echo, and remove the # from the start of the other 2 lines)

The next thing I've done recently is to tidy up the DMG generation script for DMDirc.
Now it manages to create compressed images on linux aswell as on OS X, and doesn't require stupidly ugly code or a patched version of Apples DiskDev tools!

And finally I'm now back home for the next 4 months rather than at uni, yay for no more stupid download cap! (Seriously, 20GB for a whole month kills me!)